Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.

The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.